All Portugal articles
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Reviews‘Legua’: Cannes Review
This subdued Portugeuse drama focuses on an abandoned country estate and its housekeeper
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‘Eureka’: Cannes Review
Lisandro Alonso’s trademark slow cinema treads new metaphysical ground into very hazy terrain
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UK’s Adrian Wootton to head jury of Malta’s inaugural Mediterrane Film Festival
The inaugural Mediterrane Film Festival will take place June 25-30 in Malta
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‘Legua’: first trailer for Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra’s Directors’ Fortnight title (exclusive)
Film is second feature from the Portuguese directors.
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Films Boutique boards Un Certain Regard title ‘The Buriti Flower’, scores early sales (exclusive)
João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora’s feature world premiers at Cannes next month.
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Berlin Panorama title ‘The Teacher’s Lounge’ sells to UK, Japan and key territories for Be For Films (exclusive)
Leonie Benesch as an idealistic young teacher who tries to get to the bottom of a series of thefts.
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‘Living Bad’: Berlin Review
Joao Canijo returns to the mordernist hotel of his ‘Bad Living’ to take account of the guests in this mirror film
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‘Bad Living’: Berlin Review
A crumbling hotel in a Portugese seaside village is the setting for Joao Canijo’s first of two linked films to play at the Berlinale
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New talent focus: ‘Wolf And Dog’ director Cláudia Varejão on why she moved from docs to fiction
“I realised fiction can be a place of freedom.”
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Director Mariano Barroso to lead film for Netflix in Spain and Portugal (exclusive)
Former president of the Film Academy in Spain joins streamer.
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‘Wolf And Dog’: Thessaloniki Review
Documentarian Claudia Varejao makes her fiction debut with this LGBTQ+ story set on the Azores island of Sao Miguel
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The hot projects and award winners at Doclisboa 2022
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro described a busy and joyful festival.
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“Admissions are better in the eighth week of release,” says exhibitor of changing arthouse release patterns
Films need to be given longer runs, they added.
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Doclisboa’s Miguel Ribeiro and Glenda Balucani on the ‘diversity of approaches’ at this year’s festival
Portuguese documentary festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
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MPM Premium expands sales for Gerard Depardieu-starrer ‘Umami’ and Venice Days winner ‘Wolf and Dog’ (exclusive)
Paris-based sales house completes string of deals on both films.
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‘Great Yarmouth - Provisional Figures’: San Sebastian Review
Portuguese director Marco Martins presents a damning look at immigrant life in modern Britain
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Lucrecia Martel short ‘North Terminal’ to open Doclisboa’s 2022 edition
Portugal’s documentary festival runs October 6-15.
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‘Tommy Guns’: Locarno Review
Carlos Conceicao’s confident, slyly deceptive second feature looks at young soldiers during wartime
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‘Paloma’: Munich Review
Kika Sena puts in an exceptional performance as a Brazilian trans woman desperate for a church wedding
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‘Nayola’: Annecy Review
Stunning feature animation debut depicts the horror of war from a female perspective
